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Geologic Unit: Laupahoehoe

Usage:

Laupahoehoe Volcanics (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Laupāhoehoe (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 2001).]


Subunits:

Makanaka Glacial Member (HI*).


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene to Holocene)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Laupahoehoe peninsula [Laupahoehoe Point, approx. Lat. 19 deg. 59 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 14 min. 30 sec. W., Papaaloa 7.5-min quadrangle] on east side of Mauna Kea Volcano, Island of Hawaii, HI (Macdonald, 1945).


AAPG geologic province:

Hawaii


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).